A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics is not an exact science.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Government is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.
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Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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